Google's Now Playing could start keeping track of location and activities
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- Anonymous
- 7tm
- 19 May 2019
My posts appeared to be censored here, 2 or 3 have not come through.
There were non public court cases because tech companies didn't like to be burdened with nonpublic orders to allow spying on their services. That went quiet, then the companies ramped up spying. I imagine they reached an agreement to be paid to carry out things. But realistically, you don't need any os to do this, there are so many transistors in a chipset the hack can be inbuilt unseen. Even on main boards this GS are being installed for server use. You would have to clean room everything and make it hack proof. You may see huge trade walls come down as countries try to install hacks on all devices sold, and refuse to let other countries hacked products in.
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- Samath N8 808 owner
- Hkw
- 19 May 2019
Unfortunately, no one is listening to us on our privacy issues. Even those customers living outside US, they don't even any consumer rights.
We're paying for internet, for even the constant radiation for all this tracking...
All this processing means background activity and big batteries and heavy phones, bigger safety risks.
Apple claims big standards, but inside I suspect the same story. The govt is behind you, what can you do? I even doubt Duckduckgo, just because they're in America, no other reason.
Today, even after rooting, I doubt if you can control anything... Things go deeper than you imagine. Remember, a part of Android is closed source, due to "Competitive reasons"? And they're churning out OS Versions faster than you can check them.
Not to mention Windows 10.
Remember the Nokia era?
Yes, 1400 mah was all we needed for 2 days mixed usage. My dad still owns a Nokia 808.
And even Nokia is destroyed by these Americans, what to say. They were the only center of users' data outside America... now done for.
Meego done for, Symbian ended.
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- the_dreamers
- mx6
- 19 May 2019
Of course this is only for our convenience :)
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- Anonymous
- 7tn
- 19 May 2019
Alien , 19 May 2019This is happening on PCs as well, not only on smartphones.
... moreIt will be connected with the emergency call network and might be picking up time and country there. The phone is is
Usually sold by market with that country preselected, and the clock is probably still running, some having their own batteries (on phone I don't know). I am the person you replied to.
A speaker can be used as a microphone, and Oled can detect a picture.
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- Anonymous
- uSZ
- 19 May 2019
It's ok for Google to do this but not Huawei?
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- Alien
- 3RM
- 19 May 2019
Anonymous, 19 May 2019Fool yourself not.
I was talking about something that wa... moreThis is happening on PCs as well, not only on smartphones.
Almost 100% of the time I use headphones and many, BUT MANY times I speak of something with a friend that is in the same room with me and when I want to Google it, I just press the first key and the rest of the text is already there. That's kinda scary because we normally don't speak English.
I suspect that the PC is using the microphone inside the headphones to spy on us or even it's internal microphone (some PCs have it).
I think Linux is the safest OS for PCs at the moment, while for Android things are getting tricky.
First you have to consider who makes the OS, then the brand manufacturer, then if the phone is carrier locked. So a phone goes through so many hands that could actually alter the OS and make it even more of a spying device.
Iy seems that it doesn't matter if you disable the gps module, the phones will still know where they are and when, even without a SIM inside.
I currently hard reseted my S8+ after the latest update. It had no SIM, no SD card inside and the hard reset process was performed from recovery. As soon as I turned on the phone, it knew the country and the time exactly. HOW?? Hard reset erases everything on the internal memory, yet those details remained.
Makes me wonder what suspicious brands like huawei put in their kernel..
Time to research how to root my S8+ and fast!
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- Anonymous
- v3F
- 19 May 2019
All i just want is an app (not even that, just a program damnit) that can identify songs being played real time, but noooo Google have to track every god damn thing you do!
where are all the fandroids now? Guess you guys love being watched by strangers LOL
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- Anonymous
- mys
- 19 May 2019
It’s like having someone from google always in the room with you, listening and taking notes of your each action.
What if I want to listen to some music and not be tracked? What if I want to talk about random stuff and I don’t want that to be added to my personal profile? What if I joke about something without the consequences of being targeted afterwards?
Everything kind of spying and monitoring that google, facebook, and others do, are all disguised as ‘improving the user experience’ when in reality they couldnt care less for that. All they want is to get paid by companies for delivering information, articles, news, ads, etc. to people most likely to click on them. They dont care about what the users want or need. They just disguise everything so as to make it look like they do, and the users are the ones who pay the price - being permanently monitored, listened to, their activities tracked, location tracked, people nearby tracked, social circles, google knows more about you than you know about yourself.
As long as companies send them money, they dont care what they serve the user with - wrong information, twisted politics information, endless loops of recommendations about certain topics, all having the effect of blindstriking users with so much false or inaccurate or distorted information until they take what they see and read as true.
So glad I ditched google and decided to use my brain to form opinions instead. No gmail, no google search, no gdrive, no gdocs, no android, no gspeakers.
No facebook, no instagram, no whatsapp.
No apps that ask for any more permissions or information that I know they need.
I much rather pay a bit extra for apps and services that dont track me and allow me to live a normal, human being life without a gestapo around me watching my every move.
Guck Foogle! And Facebook!
/rant over
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- AD-LB
- aps
- 19 May 2019
Anonymous, 19 May 2019So what? If it's being used to improve the user profile's ... moreI think it's possible to get a rough estimate of where you are based on IP, so you don't really have to use GPS.
To know in which country you are (or a large area in it), it's usually enough to be connected to the Internet
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- Anonymous
- 7sq
- 19 May 2019
Anonymous, 19 May 2019So what? If it's being used to improve the user profile's ... moreIt is very Soviet style intrusion. The secret police. In order to install and maintain power by controlling you. People from the former Soviet Union are commenting how things in America, even the BBC, is so much like when they were young. People have a disconnect in their heads, particularly the people in power.
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- Anonymous
- ajb
- 19 May 2019
Next logical phone choice for me: one that can have Google services disabled entirety.
My current one still has basic services, next one will certainly not.
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- Anonymous
- sxs
- 19 May 2019
So what? If it's being used to improve the user profile's music preferences so Google can provide a better music match and better music recommendations based on what's popular on the location/area and what sort of music genre the people in that area like, then it's doing you service. If it helps with law enforcement to rid the place of criminals and do investigative work, then why not? But if it is being used to manipulate your views and perception, or your profile sold to the black market, to manipulate your life, then it's bad. PRIVACY = INDEPENDENCE AND ISOLATION FROM THE SOMEONE'S or A GROUP'S EYES. 100% privacy is impossible. There are people who like to kiss and tell and spread their private lives all over the office. Then there are others who live without their neighbors even knowing about what they do, where they work, who they've been with etc. Privacy is relative. Some people like to be more private about their preferences, their lives, some not. If you want to be 100% private to Google or Apple or Facebook or to law enforcement, then go to the mountains on some isolated Pacific island and don't ever use the internet or any form of electronic communication. Nobody will be able to track what you do with your life. But then again, law enforcement won't be able to protect you as well or trace your whereabouts should you disappear. Some privacy is good but too much or too little are both bad. How much is too much or too little? It's relative and different for every person. The important thing is worldwide and government regulation for protection from abuse and misuse of personal and private data.
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- Anonymous
- 7sq
- 19 May 2019
Fool yourself not.
I was talking about something that was in another country, then turned my data on to look up an local address but misspelt it, and it returned addresses from the other country. I then told some nearby American friends what have happened and they spoke a few words, then it started to return results from America.
I mentioned this to a bank manager an he related how he talked in the car about something with data off and afterwards the ads changed to the conversation topic, and it happened to others too.
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- 19 May 2019
Samuel Oak, 19 May 2019I don't get it, why is this a good thing?The logic is probably that you heard some music at some place and when you get home you wonder what song it was and then you could theoretically search for the location and the feature would show you what music was playing there when you were doing X.
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- Jolt
- RqR
- 19 May 2019
Samuel Oak, 19 May 2019I don't get it, why is this a good thing?It's not; it is just another form of spying on users
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- Samuel Oak
- 3Ag
- 19 May 2019
I don't get it, why is this a good thing?
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- Anonymous
- Q5x
- 19 May 2019
I suppose police will use this as a tool to track evidence of some crime or some shit. Cool.
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- Anonymous
- 8se
- 19 May 2019
It is not even a new matter!
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- tDR
- 19 May 2019
Wow, that's new low, tracking
I wish to be free of Google, alas I need at least Gms to make most messaging apps work. I froze most of GAAPs, disable internet connection for unused app, install Adaway, remove FB, bloats etc. It took several reset because some tweak broke my phone but now I can end the day with 30% juice instead my phone screaming low battery all the way back to home.